THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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into operation in such Province or District: And
whereas on the ninth day of January last past, the
Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury
passed a Resolution requesting His Honor the Super-
intendent to make application, on behalf of the
Provincial Council, to the General Government to
declare "The Forest Trees Planting Encourage-
ment Act, 1871," to be in operation in that Province:
And whereas the Superintendent of the said Pro-
vince hath transmitted to me a copy of the said
Resolution, and hath requested me to cause the said
Act to be proclaimed in the Province aforesaid:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise
of the authority vested in me by the said in part recited
Act, and in accordance with the application of the
said Superintendent and said Provincial Council as
aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that "The
Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Act, 1871,"
shall, on the first day of May next, be in operation
in and throughout the Province of Canterbury
aforesaid.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at Welling-
ton, this sixteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-two.
W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1872.

THE following Bill, passed by the Provincial Coun-
cil and assented to by the Superintendent of the
Province of Auckland, intituled

"The Municipal Police Act 1866 Amendment Act,
1871,"

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has not been advised to exercise his power of dis-
allowance with respect to that Bill.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

EDWARD FAUCONER TIZARD, Esq.,

to be Returning Officer, under "The County of
Westland Act, 1868," for the Electoral District of
Okarito, vice Matthew Price, Esq., resigned.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,

to be Registration Officer for the Province of Nelson,
to form Electoral Rolls for the election of Members
of the Provincial Council thereof; vice Thomas
Brunner, Esq.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,

to be Returning Officer for the election of Members
of the Provincial Council of Nelson for the respective
Districts of City of Nelson, Suburban North, Wai-
mea East, Waimea South, Waimea West, in the
Province of Nelson; vice Thomas Brunner, Esq.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1872.

IT is hereby notified, that His Honor Mr. Justice
Gresson has reported that he has appointed

EDWARD JAMES LEE, Esq.,

to be Revising Officer for the Districts of Ashley,
Kaiapoi, Lyttelton, Selwyn, Coleridge, Timaru,
Gladstone, Christchurch East, Christchurch West,
Avon, Heathcote, and Akaroa.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1872.

THE following Standing Orders of the General
Assembly relative to Public Petitions are pub-
lished for general information.
W. GISBORNE.

PUBLIC PETITIONS.

Time for presenting Petitions.
258. No Petition shall be presented during any
Debate, nor after the House shall have proceeded to
Motions or Orders of the Day, unless it be a Petition
referring to the Question before the House, which
may be received immediately upon the reading of the
Order of the Day or Notice of Motion.

Petitions to be in writing.
259. Every Petition is to be fairly written, without
interlineation or erasure; and no printed or litho-
graphed Petition will be received.

To contain a prayer.
260. Every Petition is required to contain a
prayer.

To be signed on the same skin.
261. Every Petition is required to be signed by at
least one person, on the skin or sheet on which the
Petition is written.

To be in English or Maori.
262. Every Petition is to be written in the English
or Maori language; and every Maori Petition shall
be translated by a Translator, appointed by the
Speaker from time to time for that purpose, before it
shall be presented to the House.

To be signed by the parties.
263. Every Petition is required to be signed by
the parties whose names are appended thereto, by
their names or marks, and by no one else, except in
case of incapacity by sickness.

Signatures not to be transferred.
264. The signatures are required to be written
upon the Petition itself, and not pasted upon or
otherwise transferred thereto.

Common seals of Corporations.
265. Petitions of Corporations aggregate are re-
quired to be under their common seal; or in the case
of bodies incorporated elsewhere than within the
Colony, then under the hand of duly authorized
attorneys of such Corporations.

No letters, affidavits, &c., to be attached.
266. No letters, affidavits, or other documents, may
be attached to any Petition.

Debates not to be referred to.
267. No reference may be made in a Petition to